The Japan Society of Sport Methodology (JSSM) changed the name to “Japan Society of Coaching Studies” (JSCS) on the 20th anniversary of establishment (March 20, 2010). This journal was also renamed from current “Japan Journal of Sport Methodology” to “Japan Journal of Coaching Studies” in conjunction with this renewal. This article tried to dissert the historical overview the renaming process of the society as referring the trend inside and outside the country of the physical education and the sport world, and to speculate the future perspective of the academic society.
The foundation root of this society starts from the installation (1950) of the presentation category of “coaching” in The Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences (JSPEHSS), and then the special-interest group “Methodology of Physical Education” (Taiikuhoho) was formed in 1968 that was the mother body later to procreate the independent society “JSMS” in 1989. The renaming process was characterized from the method of educational “PE” to more universal “sport”, and then more pragmatic overall naming “coaching” every almost 20 years under the influences of the contents, the objectives, and the social environment.
The suggestion in the future perspective obtained as a result of these is the following:
1) The establishment of knowledge and the theoretical frame connected directly with those solutions with finding the problem and the task that faces on an actual guidance site of the physical education and sports is a pressing need. 2) Those main tasks are divided into the performance theory, the training theory, the competition theory, and the team organization theory. 3) As for the discovery of these problems, excavations of the task, and reasonable solutions, the field work that the researcher enters an actual coaching field have a great importance. 4) The proactive cooperation with the related various sciences is expected only developing our own theoretical system in conjunction with mastering own skills in the real field of coaching.
